[UK]Thousands march in Glasgow’s 20th pride parade
Thousands turned out for Scotland’s biggest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) parade through Glasgow’s city center on Saturday. For the first time in the event’s history, the celebrations

[USA]NIH gets $5 million for trans youth study
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced, on Aug. 14, that it has awarded $5.7 million for a five-year study that will evaluate the long-term outcomes of medical treatment for transgender youth, the Windy City Times reports. Among the co-investigators in the study is Dr. Robert Garofalo, division chief of Adolescent Medicine at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and professor of Pediatrics at Northwestern University School of Medicine.

[MI, USA]Fired funeral home worker may shape transgender rulings
A Detroit funeral home is headed to trial after firing a transgender employee in a case that has the potential to create a court precedent for federal officials to make sexual identity a protected status in employment discrimination law.